smackay

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by smackay 4mo ago
Look at how pure the signal is from the peregrine's wings. The signal from feral pigeon is extremely noisy in comparison, as if it is fighting to stay the in the air. The peregrine wingbeat is clean so I presume the energy is being tur
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by smackay 5mo ago
Same here. I can still hear them breathing quite clearly in the next room, even with the bedroom doors partially closed. My hearing for noises further away got more sensitive, but those nearby less so. I put this down to an ancestral abilit
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by smackay 10mo ago
You forgot to mention personal integrity and setting a good example to others.
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by smackay 10mo ago
If you need an authoritative source, look no further than the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. https://www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2025-the-essential-guide-t...
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by smackay 1y ago
Not at all, the slightly snarky wording, was typed on the spur of the moment. Incidentally, I tried the same terms on Google and the AI-powered answer was rather informative with the pros and cons of the approach. Indeed the cons seem to be
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by smackay 1y ago
I'd be very interested in learning more about how DOGE got staffed. If your goal was to dramatically cut government spending, then hiring bright, young people, with no prior experience, who axed first, and asked questions later would b
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by smackay 1y ago
> you are always birding Amen, Brother. I think a large part of the blame for this state of affairs belongs to people like the BBC's Natural History Unit who licence their material to film and TV companies far and wide. So, for exam
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by smackay 1y ago
The path of progress is strewn with needles.
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by smackay 1y ago
Microsoft at least sees the writing on the wall... Microsoft announces new European digital commitments https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/europea...
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by smackay 1y ago
A somewhat public thank you to Donald Omand from Aberdeen University for all the work he did in documenting the dialect of Caithness - that purple-ish bit at the far top right of the Scottish mainland. https://www.wickvoices.co.u
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by smackay 1y ago
Spaghetti revealling scientific truths? Bobby Henderson would not be amused, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastafarians
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by smackay 1y ago
1972 is the answer to the question on the lips of everybody too busy to look at the source files.
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by smackay 2y ago
I expect first responders rarely have to deal with the level of depravity mentioned in this Wired article from 2014, https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ You probably DO NOT want to read it. Ther
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by smackay 2y ago
Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) heads are white in the breeding season. Birds start breeding aged three to five. So technically the statement is correct but I wonder if Gemini didn't get its pelicans and cormorants in a muddle.
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by smackay 2y ago
Technologists' very existence is based on the idea of improvement, and, as a result, making the lives of others better. Compared to other approaches, nothing has delivered quite on the same scale, though it's not without its costs
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by smackay 2y ago
What kinds of forests? For nature, or for lumber? If the latter, what is quality of the timber produced, or will it spark a new wave of power stations burning wood pellets. Lots of questions, with very little detail available in the article
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by smackay 2y ago
If you wear gloves, you'll always wear gloves - annec-data from the crew I used to go out with catching shorebirds, in Scotland, in the middle of winter. The glove wearers we unable to function within an hour of taking them off to band
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by smackay 2y ago
This is a re-run of the end of the first dot-com boom where the rest of the organisation got some payback against the pampered and coddled engineers who built the web sites in between foosball games. Except this time around when your engine
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by smackay 2y ago
Interesting to see from the press release that Right to Repair is being cracked down upon: When a product is repaired and upgraded outside the original manufacturer’s control, the company or person that modified the product should be held l
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by smackay 2y ago
The prices for housing, in any form, in the major metropolitan areas suggest this will not be successful.
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by smackay 2y ago
Thanks for that. I didn't realise that the community extended beyond the government departments.
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by smackay 2y ago
Horn tooting time... I wrote, https://github.com/wildfish/crispy-forms-gds/ , a template pack for Crispy Forms for regular, form-based, Django sites. Matt's done a great job and it will certainly take out a lo
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by smackay 2y ago
Wikipedia always delivers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-resident_citizen_voting "As of 2020 a total of 141 countries grant expatriates the right to vote in elections in their countries of origin."
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by smackay 2y ago
tamaiti - a Maori name seems to be the obvious choice
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Cleantech Has an Enshittification Problem(pluralistic.net)
4 points by smackay 2y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 2y ago
It's Gwynne Shotwell, COO of SpaceX, who makes the rockets fly.
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Europe's Core(newleftreview.org)
2 points by smackay 2y ago|0 comments
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by smackay 2y ago
Shared purpose in some ways works better. It certainly can be fostered in the same ways that faith can. Sports works really well and "fringe" activities like birding bind people together really well. For example the solidarity amo
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Scotland's Hate Speech Act and Abuse of Process(craigmurray.org.uk)
23 points by smackay 2y ago|10 comments
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JWT confirms something is seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe(livescience.com)
31 points by smackay 3y ago|10 comments

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